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Fresh_Start

(11,330 posts) Fri Jan 11, 2013, 07:09 PM Jan 2013

being a hunter does not make any one a competent gun owner

it might be a slightly better excuse than "my precious" by itself.
But I suspect that most people who know a dozen hunters, know that at least a couple of them are irresponsible and that makes them dangerous.

My recollection from my teen years when I lived in the country was the hunters gathering for Morning Services before dawn.
I knew to stay out of the woods during hunting season because my neighborhood hunters were juiced before daybreak.

So instead of thinking of your own wonderful self when you think of the need to prevent gun control, think of the idiots you know who own guns. Because you are enabling the idiots as well as fine upstanding people like yourself.

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being a hunter does not make any one a competent gun owner (Original Post) Fresh_Start Jan 2013 OP

you're absolutely right samsingh Jan 2013 #1

Gotta agree. I know of many who have shot themselves in the foot RebelOne Jan 2013 #3

In my experience most of the idiot hunters are one-day-a-year hunters from Suburbia Odin2005 Jan 2013 #2

I was living in the country among farmers Fresh_Start Jan 2013 #4

Hence my caveat about my experience being limited to Minnesota. Odin2005 Jan 2013 #7

I'd agree with you that the once in the year types are more risky Fresh_Start Jan 2013 #8

Ever see a road sigh in the country that wasn't upaloopa Jan 2013 #5

I'm not saying that rural folks are somehow endowed with more common sense Fresh_Start Jan 2013 #6

Think Dick Cheney and blowing away his friends face. madinmaryland Jan 2013 #9

perfect example, thank you nt Fresh_Start Jan 2013 #10

samsingh

(17,599 posts)

1. you're absolutely right

Reply to Fresh_Start (Original post)

Fri Jan 11, 2013, 07:10 PM

Jan 2013

RebelOne

(30,947 posts)

3. Gotta agree. I know of many who have shot themselves in the foot

Reply to samsingh (Reply #1)

Fri Jan 11, 2013, 07:19 PM

Jan 2013

or fallen out of tree stands.

Odin2005

(53,521 posts)

2. In my experience most of the idiot hunters are one-day-a-year hunters from Suburbia

Reply to Fresh_Start (Original post)

Fri Jan 11, 2013, 07:19 PM

Jan 2013

We rural hunters hate them exactly because a lot of them are dangerous numbskulls.

But this is in Minnesota, the culture is probably different, elsewhere.

Fresh_Start

(11,330 posts)

4. I was living in the country among farmers

Reply to Odin2005 (Reply #2)

Fri Jan 11, 2013, 07:25 PM

Jan 2013

not visiting one-day-a-year hunters.

There are plenty of rural fools, just like there are suburban fools, or urban fools.

Odin2005

(53,521 posts)

7. Hence my caveat about my experience being limited to Minnesota.

Reply to Fresh_Start (Reply #4)

Fri Jan 11, 2013, 07:35 PM

Jan 2013

Upper-middle class people from exurban communities NW of the Twin Cities (the same idiots who elected crazy-ass Bachmann) have a really bad reputation, here.

Fresh_Start

(11,330 posts)

8. I'd agree with you that the once in the year types are more risky

Reply to Odin2005 (Reply #7)

Fri Jan 11, 2013, 07:40 PM

Jan 2013

overall because they don't have the experience and they are trying to make sure they take full advantage of their
once in a year opportunity which makes them a little trigger happy.

But I know plenty of rural fools, and those fools tend to be worse when they are young or under the influence.